On March 6Neill Blomkamps movie Chappie adds more high-tech hardware a long list of big-screen robots, continuing our fascination with Artificial Intelligence. Hollywood takes on AI range from 1984s The Terminator, to Steven Spielbergs A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and the recent Scarlett Johansson-voiced Her, just to name a few.

FoxNews.com asked futurist and SeriousWonder.com CEO Gray Scott which cinematic visions got it right and which were way off.

You have to talk about The Terminator if youre talking about Artificial Intelligence. I actually think that thats way off, he said. I dont think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture. We are looking at a system where we could look out into the world and see machines that are smarter than us and weve never really reacted well to that kind of situation before. So, I think Chappie is interesting because its more about how we react to the systems.

Scott notes that the learning process addressed in Chappie also stand out. In Chappie you see this sort of young robot thats learning through maybe deep learning how to see the world really, look out into the world, and learn step by step, he explained. Whats so interesting is that with Chappie youre getting to see how human behavior reacts to artificial intelligence and I dont think its always going to be positive.

The futurist explained where this learning process stands now in real life. We do know that we can set certain algorithms for machines to do certain things - now that may be a simple task. A factory robot that moves one object from here to there, he said. Thats a very simple top down solution. But when we start creating machines that learn for themselves, that is a whole new area that weve never been in before. Were starting to see the preliminary versions of that on the market now.

Aritificial Intelligence is certainly sparking debate at the moment thanks to The Future of Life Institutes open letter outlining the research priorities for beneficial AI, and a recent warning from Stephen Hawking about the technology.

I think its good that were having the conversation now - we dont want this to become a part of our culture without having the discussion first, said Scott. We want to implement, and I think this is what they are sort of saying, I dont think they are saying its going to destroy us, I think what theyre saying is we need to have that conversation now. What do we put in place, what kind of algorithms can we put in place, to keep it from becoming violent if that is in fact where it goes?

He added: I think that kind of conversation because we do have 25-30 years as a lead up to true Artificial Intelligence, the kind thats autonomous. If it even happens that soon. So I think its good that were having that conversation and its coming from people in those arenas.

For more on the future, and how we may one day hear from AI, click the video above for our Tech Take with Gray Scott!

Fox News Entertainment Producer Ashley Dvorkin covers celebrity news, red carpets, TV, music, and movies. Dvorkin, winner of the 2011 CMA Media Achievement Award, is also host of "Fox 411 Country," "Star Traveler," Fox 411 Big Screen," and "Fox on Reddit."

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